Neknam Khan (; born Reza Qoli Beg, died 1672) was the Iranian-born sipahsalar (commander-in-chief) of the Sultanate of Golconda. A native of Gilan or Mazandaran, he initially served in the court of the Mughal Empire emperor Jahangir () before moving to Golconda in 1634/35. There he worked under its ruler Abdullah Qutb Shah (), as well as briefly Mir Jumla II. He supported the Iranian theologian and historian Ali ibn Tayfur Bistami, who dedicated the Ganjnama dar hall-i-lughat-i-shahnama ("Treasure Book to Solve Words in the Book of Kings") to him. It was a dictionary for the outdated words used in the Persian epic Shahnameh ("Book of Kings").
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